Realme has announced that it will showcase the world’s first 64MP quad-camera on a smartphone at the company’s camera innovation event scheduled for August 8. Neither Realme, nor the CEO has given out the name or any other information about the device. Currently, the Realme X(Review) is the company’s flagship device and it sports a triple-camera setup with 48MP Sony IMX586 primary sensor, which produces images with a binned resolution of 12MP by default.
In June, Sheth announced that Realme is developing a phone with Samsung’s Bright GW1 sensor that has a resolution of 64MP and uses the company’s ISOCELL technology to shoot images. The executive tweeted an image which, he claims, is taken on the handset with the sensor in question. The image mentions “64MP AI Quad Camera”, and Sheth stressed that this particular device would be launched in India before any other market globally.
Launched by Samsung Semiconductors in May this year, this smartphone imaging sensor is capable of 4-pixel binning to yield 16-megapixel binned images. The ISOCELL Bright GW1 features the highest resolution in Samsung’s 0.8μm-pixel image sensor lineup. Samsung says that the sensor is equipped with pixel-merging Tetracell technology and an algorithm that lets it produce 16MP images in low-light environments and “highly-detailed” 64MP shots in brighter settings.
Interestingly, this is the third phone that has been reported to come equipped with the Samsung 64MP sensor. Famous tipster Ice Universe said that Redmi and Samsung also reported to be working on a phone with the Bright GW1 sensor, but it seems Realme will be the first company to launch a phone with this sensor commercially.